In the three months between April and June of this year, Sony saw both a "significant increase in unit sales" of its Android smartphones and an improved average selling price per handset. That's at the heart of the company's improved profitability.

The common parlance that only Samsung is profiting off Android is, as I've said before, simply no longer true. All it took for companies like LG and Sony to become profitable with Android is to, you know, stop making crap phones, and start producing good ones.

Notice that "FX impact" was over 10 times the operating income. In other words, if the yen had not dropped 20% against other world currencies, Sony would have turned in an operating loss of 56.5 billion yen in the mobile division.

Would you consider a profit margin of -14.5% to be "doing quite well?"